For 24 hours, the Greater Manchester Police tweeted every single incident and emergency call their officers had to deal with. Here’s our ten favourite weird tweets from that day.

Greater Manchester Police spent most of yesterday Twittering their emergencies

Over the course of the day – from 5am on October 14 to 5am the next morning – the force posted 3205 tweets about incidents requiring police attention, made 341 arrests and had 126 people in custody by the end of the 24 hours.

And while there were many serious crimes – including rapes, assaults and armed robberies – they also their fair share of bizarre or downright inexplicable incidents.

Here are our favourite ten tweets from the weird end of the scale – including an apparent trend for animals that are scared of bridges…